I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

My work... is my legacy.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.